Knitted Valentine Baubles

Tomorrow my daughter leaves for Kenya
along with her fellow fund raisers. I wish them well and send them my love. No idea what I am bumbling on about follow the link here:Kenya post

Some of you may remember that one of the things I wish to achieve this year is to be a better knitter. I mean I can knit and when pushed I will. But I wanted to crack it and enjoy it like I do crochet. I maybe well on that path thanks to three people, the wonderful Arne and Carlos, don't know who they are? Follow this link, they really are fantastic champions of dpn and knitting and Scandinavian textile design: Arne & Carlos Doesn't hurt that they are both Norwegian too ;). The third person I am grateful to is mamma Kari. Mentioning that I wanted to become a whizz at knitting and what I had in mind, she set to, making a few examples for me, jumped on a plane and sat beside me gently encouraging me
that I would enjoy it.

Watching the pattern unfold is exciting

And she was right.

Between us we knitted for the whole of Scandinavia and the UK and sat in companiable crafty silence next to each other.

Precious moments.

So what did we knit? Arne and Carlos knitted valentine and Easter baubles. I really do urge you to give them a try. They are truly addictive and now having made 27 of them between us in only five days I still want to make more!! Addiction has set in and the crochet is not getting a look in.

A great inspirational pattern book for knitters

This was the first pattern I knitted from the book

Three of the twenty seven baubles we knitted

Adding colour with knitted baubles

Once you have made a few it really is simple to begin creating your own patterns and designs too. Am thinking I might make some personalised initial ones for each of us in the house at some point.

I have posted previously about Arne and Carlos and the knitted Christmas baubles HERE but I was not taken with them because my knitting dexterity was not then up to much, this time I am better. I love making these baubles. Can you tell? Whilst I am in a knitting phase I think I should start to create some more of the Christmas ones too. What do you think? Too early to start mentioning Christmas or perhaps because it is so ridiculously early it is ok to mention the C word?